[lbo-talk] why are white southerners so violent?

[Carrol Cox]

Perhaps. But does coincidence even provisionally "explain" anything in
and of itself. I can't remember which essay it wasm byt Stephen Jay
Gould once pointed out that the price of gasoline and some astronomical
phenomenon perfectly tracked each other. In fact I think the number of
striking but utterly insignifican correspondences of this kind is near
to countless.

Carrol

Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
> On Jul 17, 2010, at 10:50 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> 
> > I really don't see how any discussion of violence in the south can leave
> > out lynching.
> >
> > Nor can it leave out the demands of "white unity.
> 
> We're working so far with an abstract, not even the full paper, so we don't even know what the author said.
> 
> That aside, it is of some interest that ethnicity and the animal population do statistically "explain" current murder rates? It might be that there's something there. If not, I'd like to hear an explanation of why not.
> 
> Doug
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